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Avast Free antivirus avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for come users and non-commercial use. Both of these conditions should be met! Our company offers the Home Edition free of charge, since, in our opinion, it is possible to avoid global virus spreading by efficient prevention; however, many users are(…)

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 requires the WebDAV component to be installed and enabled on the management points and BITS-enabled distribution points. The WebDAV component is not included in Windows Server 2008 operating system. Note The information in this topic applies only to Configuration Manager 2007 SP1. You must download, install, and configure WebDAV(…)

The following is a list of about 100 of the best OpenSource Applications, that actually help make Linux more usable for people. It is my hope that this list shows potential Linux users that there really is a large, effective, productive and usable range of free, OpenSource applications. For existing Linux users (like myself), I(…)

If you have a slow internet connection or are still using dial-up, here are some tips to increase the speed of internet browsing and sending or receiving email: Compress email attachments: Compressing your file attachments can dramatically reduce the time needed to send and receive emails.Â WinZip is one of the more common compression tools,(…)

Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Memcached is a great piece of software that was designed with performance in mind. Still, memcached has little (or should I say none?) security features built-in. If we run(…)

I will talk in this post about setting two apache directives: ServerTokens and ServerSignature and how they can be used. Basically to provide only a minimal amount of information we will set this in the main config to: ServerTokens ProductOnly ServerSignature Off Thatâ€™s itâ€¦ For a more detailed describtion check out the rest of the(…)

Cisco PIX Firewall BasicsThe following diagram shows a multi-port PIX connected to various networks. Cisco PIX Firewall Basics PIX terminology: we generally refer to the user segment as the Inside subnet. The interface connected to the Internet router is the outside subnet. As shown, we probably have DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) subnet, the subnet where we(…)

Apache is one of the most — if not the most — powerful open source solutions for Website operations. You will find that Apache’s Web logging features are flexible for the single Website or for managing numerous domains requiring Web log analysis. For the single site, Apache is pretty much configured for logging in the(…)

Introduction to phpBB phpBB is a stable, open-source, bulletin board script available as a free download from phpbb.com [2]. It allows you to set up an unlimited number of forums and categories. Users, moderators and user groups with varying permissions can be created. In short, it provides everything you’d expect of a bulletin board service.(…)

What is a WWW robot? A robot is a program that automatically traverses the Web’s hypertext structure by retrieving a document, and recursively retrieving all documents that are referenced. Note that “recursive” here doesn’t limit the definition to any specific traversal algorithm; even if a robot applies some heuristic to the selection and order of(…)

Configuring your Cisco Router If you have just turned on the router, it will be completely unconfigured. If it is already configured, you may want to view its current configuration. Even if it has not been previously configured, you should familiarize yourself with the show commands before beginning to configure the router. Enter privileged mode(…)